It's common knowledge that your iq drops substantially under duress. Which in actuality, is nothing more but your fearful response to external stimuli. No matter where you reside in the world, it's easy to find something to be frightened over. Whether it's the economy, politics, geopolitics, war, crime, and so forth.
The powerful realize most people are open to allowing these messages and realities that are beyond their control to penetrate their lives. Creating biological responses that paralize them far more effectively than physical chains ever could. As these very people breathe life into their own fears and spread it onto others with their words and deeds. Social media depicts this on an international scale better than anything known to man.
If people are aware of this, why do we do it? I've grown to realize humanity is conditioned and indoctrinated to believe they are powerless. Only those who already know they are powerful increase in power. There seems to be a tendancy for people to gravitate towards those they find more powerful then themselves. Freely and happily willing to give away their own power to benefit them.
Walk in love. Not in fear.